Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-16

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time. OF the five Republican sen
atOrs now en- the committee
three are known to favor Lamar's con.
firmation; those are Evarts, Wilson
and Hosr. Judge Mcmillan OF Mime
| sofa, having been retired from The
Senate, the vacancy on the committee il
| open to the appointment of three men:
Teller OF Colorado, Spooner of Wisconsin
and McMillan's successor, Governor
Davis. All OF these possible members oi
the Judiciary CO rmittee have frankly
| stated their opinion that Mr. Lamar should
be confirmed Senator Spooner said to-
day: "When one lawyer appoints another
to Judicial position, the presumptions
are in favor OF the man appointed. When
l was in Chicago on my way to
Washington, a number of prominent gen.
tlemen called upon me and asked that 1
should oppose Mr.. Lamar's confirmation
in case he should be appointed. L told
them tnat personally Mr.. Lamar was
qualified to go upon the Supreme bench,
and that if party shrewdness had anythip g
to do with my vote, l should certainly
approve confirmation OF Mr.. Lamar for
one simple reason. In any event we must
have al eX-ConfederateI for this vacancy,
and would rather have Mr.. Lamar, WI o
is already an old man, than some healthy,
able bodied young southerner, who would
stay on the bench long enough to become
part of states rights majority Of JUS
tees" This view of the matter seemed
to prevail on the Republican side OF the
Senate, and is doubtless the strongest as
surance OF Mr.. Lamsr'5 confirmation. $50
"To me the Democratic side Of the
House as picture," said Senator Daniel
of Virginia this morning, ''is far more in
interesting than the other. The Democracy
as grouped together here on this side OF
the chamber, is composite, various, and
self-contrasted body OF men. It reminds
me good deal Of Richmond at the out
break Of the war. The city was like Paris
when the allied armies encamped there
in 1915, with Cossack and Spaniard, High
lander and Hungarian, from the four
quarters Of Europe, mingled and confused
upon themselves. On the hillsldes
around the city of Richmond were white
expanses of tents, and oD the streets
passed and repassed all the various types
of the southerner. There was the tall,
rangy and uncouth Texan from the banks
OF the Rio Grande; the soft bearded, mid
faced Maryland planter; the red shifted
boatman from the Arkansas or Red river:
the magnificent, tall, well proportioned
mountsineer from Tennessee and West
Virginia; the spare, sallow, wiry turpen-
tine maker from North Carolina; the
dashing, easy, over confident South
Carolinian, accomplished and elegant
through education and travel; the semi
French Louisianian; not to speak of the old
fashioned Virginia gentleman with his
polished manners and ever-spparent
courage. 1t is so with this Democratic
majority of the House. You can see
there all these types of the
the alert, informed, progressive
westerner, the busy, schemning, success
full New Yorker, and the polished, modest
New Englanoer. As picturesque gath
ering OF types, both physically and intel
lectualiy, in language, manners, thought,
the House, with itssdiversity and variety,
is endlessly interesting.
Secretary Bayard insists this winter
that he shall receive in the appropria-
tions for the State Department an
clerk hire, made necessary by the unusual
Soi1o upou tuC OCpekl tuSut UuIluS tuc
sessions of Congress from Senators and
Members for copies of documents of
various kinds. Secretary Endisott has
taken similar stand in behalf of the
clerks OF the War Department, and it is
no more than just that the allowance
should be made. For four months
during the past year the windows
OF the State and War Departments shone
out every night with the lamps of
q detachment Of clerks assigned to over
work in order to keep up with the calls
made upon the departments for copies of
documents. In the War Department
there is uniformly demand from the
states for certified copies of rosters. ALI
this work is done without any pay until
Congress makes an appropriation to meet
it. Usually the best clerks are set to
work upon this, and consequently the
most deserving employees are obliged to
sacrifice time, comfort and health, often
for long periods, without receiving their
extra pay. FEANK q. CARPENTER.